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1. "Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again."

Karl Popper

Quotations about: Life and Death

2. "The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink."

Fran Lebowitz

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

3. "The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it."

Dudley Moore

Quotations about: Various

4. "Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results."

Henri Poincare, "Of Science and Hypotheses"

5. "God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world."

Paul Dirac

Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Nature and Animals

6. "Computer is not a device anymore. It is an extension of your mind and your gateway to other people."

Mark Shuttleworth

7. "Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object."

Laurence J. Peter

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

8. "Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth."

Dave Barry, "Dave Barry in Cyberspace"

9. "A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that doesn't exist."

Charles Darwin

10. "Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."

Carl Sagan

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

11. "Programming under Windows is like starting a gourmet restaurant using ingredients from McDonalds."

Michael D. Perry

Quotations about: Various

12. "Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt."

Richard Feynman

Quotations about: God and Religion

13. "Science increases our power in proportion as it lowers our pride."

Claude Bernard

14. "A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God."

Donald Knuth

15. "Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do."

Donald Knuth

Quotations about: Art and Culture

16. "Technology is that which separates us from our environment."

Marshall McLuhan

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

17. "Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them."

James A. Michener

18. "Computers are like a bicycle for our minds."

Steve Jobs

19. "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."

H. G. Bohn

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

20. "In the future, airplanes will be flown by a dog and a pilot. And the dog's job will be to make sure that if the pilot tries to touch any of the buttons, the dog bites him."

Scott Adams

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21. "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."

Stephen Hawking

Quotations about: Life and Death

22. "Archeologist: someone whose career lies in ruins."

Anon.

23. "Science is a voyage of discovery, and beyond each horizon there is another."

Francis Hitching, "The Neck of the Giraffe"

24. "All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."

Mark Kennedy

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

25. "Television is bubble gum for the eyes."

Frank Lloyd Wright

26. "[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory."

George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah"

27. "DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine."

Kenneth E. Boulding

28. "Investigators are always divided into those who are looking for rules and those who are looking for exceptions."

L.W Hackett

29. "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- God and Religion

30. "Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."

Ernest Dimnet

Quotations about: Art and Culture

31. "Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second."

Jean-Luc Godard

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

32. "The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village."

Marshall McLuhan, "Gutenberg Galaxy"

Quotations about: Various

33. "The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad and incomplete in the urban compound."

Marshall McLuhan, "Understanding Media"

Quotations about: Various

34. "Architecture is the art of how to waste space."

Philip Johnson

Quotations about: Various -:- Art and Culture

35. "People can have the Model T in any colour - so long as it's black."

Henry Ford

Quotations about: Various

36. "The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number."

Alexis Carrel

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

37. "You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."

Albert Camus

38. "Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?"

Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables"

39. "Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

40. "The true subject of science is the beauty of the world."

Simone Weil

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

41. "A computer is almost human - except that it does not blame its mistakes on another computer."

Anon.

Quotations about: Human

42. "Clock: A small mechanical device to wake up people without children."

Anon.

43. "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture."

Bertrand Russell, "Philosophical Essays"

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

44. "Art is meant to disturb, science reassures."

Georges Braque

Quotations about: Art and Culture

45. "Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world."

Henry Brooks Adams

Quotations about: Human

46. "If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. "

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: History and Nations -:- Success and Fame

47. "It always helps to know the answer when you are working toward the solution of a problem."

Anon.

Quotations about: Question and Problem

48. "There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment."

Leonardo da Vinci

49. "Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

50. "You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way."

Will Rogers

Quotations about: Peace and War

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